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Zen and the Art of the Self-Managing Company
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The Billionaire Bootstrapper
A $550 sink nearly prevented Fred DeLuca from amassing a billion-dollar fortune.
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George Schenk's largest licensee had his own ideas about running his restaurant. Was it time to cut him loose?
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